Ship/Smallcraft Code/Type DD Destroyer
Service/Source Grayson Space Navy
Class Name Gearing
Mass/Displacement (Tons) 99,500
Length Overall (Meters) 700
Maximum Beam (Meters) 160
Maximum Height (Meters) 105
Maximum Acceleration (G) 619.5 in Normal-Space 5978.8 in Hyper-Space
Complement 305 (25 Officers + 280 Warrant/Enlisted)
Core Crew 270 (24 + 246)
Marine Complement 35 (1 + 34)
Armament Mounted Weapon Mount Placement
Type/Number Broadside Mounts P/S Chase Mounts F/A
Launcher Mod 7 x12 4/4 2/2
Laser 45cm x6 3/3 0/0
Laser 60cm x2 0/0 1/1
PD Laser Cluster x20 7/7 303
Missile(s) Used GSN/RMN Mk50 Series; GSN/RMN Mk3 Countermissile Cannister
Parasite Complement LCMA x2 (M30 Cromwell); LCS x1 (R4 Marder); YGS x1 (GSN-std Small Missile/Utility Lighter)
Designer/Creator K. Harron for Grayson Space Navy Office of Shipbuilding
Notes This class mounts CL-grade lasers in place of the usual DD-grade mounts for increased effect when serving as part of a screening element for the Alliance wall of battle. The sidewall generators are identical to those mounted in the RMN’s Prince Consort-class CA to increasesurvivability in the screening and convoy-escort roles. The Gearing’s larger-than-usual mass also allows it to carry a total of 420 Mk50 missiles in its magazines: space constraints limit the bow and stern magazines to 25 missiles per tube, but the broadside magazines hold 40 missiles per tube – a 60% increase over the usual DD magazine load.
Ships of this class will be named after mid-2nd Century Ante Diaspora (“World War II”) North American wet-navy Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts. The initial production run will include Gearing (the class ship), Knox, Fletcher, Rowan, Cunningham, Ingersoll, Wadsworth, Callahan, Perry, Maddox, Sullivan, O’Bannon, Thatcher, Gatling, Cushing, Pratt, Whitney, Gregory, Massey, Rudderow, Presley, and several others.



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